Dead Silence······

"Is it Ye Yu?" The Night's Watch whispered

"It was him, and I hypnotized him when he was about to wake up, and he didn't know it." Ange took a deep breath, "Originally, I just wanted to know how he figured out the technique of 'bursting blood', but I didn't expect to hear this"

The night watchman was silent for a long time, then brushed his hair violently, leaned back in the swivel chair, and let out a long breath in the sky, "Sounds like a nightmare"

"But I remember that Chu Zihang should also be with him at that time," Ange said in a low voice, "but I only found this opportunity, and I guess Chu Zihang doesn't know, after all, what happened that day was too surprising to them."

Silent, the night watchman stared silently out the window at the fluttering leaves

Ban Xiang asked slowly, "Did you find that Maybach in the end?" ”

"I found it, in the wasteland outside the city, the body was badly damaged, as if it had been cut with a laser cutter and spot-welded with a welding torch. The location where the car was found was 15 km from the nearest viaduct. Ange handed a copy of the print material to the Night's Watchman, "It wasn't towed by a trailer, it was driven by itself, there was no trace of a trailer at the scene, there were obvious rut marks on the wasteland"

"Where's the information?"

"I quietly left a copy of the file of the 'unknown type of crime' of the Chinese police that the school board obtained in China, and I quietly left a copy when it passed through my hands."

"The school board?" The night watchman frowned slightly, "I thought you had completely set them up over the years, don't forget that we are an academy now, we are not the secret party of the year, the school board should be just a row of portraits on the wall, what are they doing in charge of school affairs?" Do you still think you're the Council of Elders of the Secret Party? ”

"Overhead," Ange smiled wryly, "this is not the time to talk about campus politics. ”

"Do you deserve me to talk to you about politics? You don't understand politics at all, you're just a conspirator. The night watchman shook his head, then looked at the file, "Someone else drove the car there?" Was the place where the car was found the first scene? ”

"It's not someone else's drive, the fingerprints left by the steering wheel are only Chu Zihang and his father, then Ye Yu is also in that car, if someone drives the car over even if they wear gloves, they will leave traces."

"That is to say, the first scene is the wasteland, where Ye Yu and Chu Zihang and Chu Zihang's father encountered Odin the leader of the Arthur Protoss in Norse mythology, and they mistakenly thought they were on an elevated road at that time." The Night's Watch swallowed the remaining ice cubes from the glass into his mouth and chewed slowly

"Hallucinations? Collective hallucinations? Some kind of spirit that can cause hallucinations? ”

"Maybe there are words and spirits that can affect the young Ye Yu and Chu Zihang, but if they can use the 'words and spirits time zero', his father's bloodline purity may not be as pure as mine, if he doesn't even realize that he is in an illusion······ Then the only one who releases this spirit of words can only be the dragon king. “

"Will Odin be one of the dragon kings?"

"I don't know, if you deduce from Norse mythology, he is the god of justice, and the black dragon Nidhogg belongs to the evil camp."

The night watchman shrugged, "Okay, Odin, whether it's a god or something else, let's call each other that way for the time being, or maybe it was a forged street sign that led Ye Yu and them into a no-man's land, such as a road that has not yet been completed or abandoned, that road is not far from the wasteland, and finally Chu Zihang was very nervous when he escaped, mistakenly thinking that he was still on the elevated road, how about this explanation?" ”

"I've searched on the map, but there is no such no-man's land."

The night watchman fell silent. His expression was very weird, his cheek muscles were throbbing, the corners of his eyes were twitching, he couldn't tell whether it was uneasy, frightened or funny, if Lu Mingfei saw it, he would definitely say, "Hey, why do you have a hellish expression on your face?" ”

"Then he's the hell," the night watchman looked into Ange's eyes, "and he's here······ The land of the dead, the Nibelungen? ”

"Yes," Ange said, looking the night watchman in the eye, "that's my conclusion. That elevated road does exist, but ordinary people can't find him. To this day, the elevated road is still there, empty, no one, exactly the same as what Ye Yu saw on that rainy night······· There it is······ The Land of the Dead! ”

"You're!" The night watchman jumped up from his swivel chair, "You're here to tell me this?" The Land of the Dead! Nibelungen! What a sacred place it was, in the thousands of years of human history, alchemists tried to break their heads in order to find it, how could two children who didn't know anything go in? ”

"You're worried, you haven't jumped up in front of me for decades, you're always huddled on the couch like a lazy snake, and you've grown a beer belly after drinking too much beer." Ange pointed to the night watchman's denim shirt that couldn't cover his belly

The night watchman glanced down and realized that what Ange said was the truth, that his eight-pack abs, as the older generation of beautiful men in the West, had become a whole bulge, and he hadn't been excited for decades, because there was really nothing to be excited about, and it was pleasant to read the West and Sexy Girl magazines and reminisce about his youth

He realized why he had suddenly lost his temper, if the exit of that world really appeared······ His days of comfort are almost over

"The Nibelungen is just a legend and probably doesn't exist at all." The night watchman sat back in his swivel chair, pondering the words

"Tell me about the country of the dead, I am a new person in the secret party, and you know far more about science, alchemy and dragons than I do."

"It's a long story······" The night watchman groaned as he poured himself a glass of pure malt whisky

"Long story short"

"Then it's two words, heaven"

"Heaven?"

The Night's Watch took a sip of whiskey, "Actually, no one among the alchemists knows what the 'Nibelungen of the Dead Man' is, and legend has it that the witch who claimed to have been there was burned to death on the cross. There is no shortage of alchemists in history who say that they have been there, and they will not be able to prove themselves until they die. The existence of this thing is more sacred than the 'Philosopher's Stone', and the essence of alchemy is to 'kill' matter and then 'regenerate' it, in the process, the magazine is eliminated and matter is reborn. But killing people is easy, killing matter is not, and in order to kill metal, alchemists are constantly chasing higher flame temperatures, and more magical recipes. ”

"The premise of life is death." Raise your head

"Yes, dead matter is the best material, if you want to make gold, you must kill silver, and if you want to make a sword, you must first kill steel." The Night's Watch whispered

"And the land of the dead is a world that is said to coexist with our world. There are not just dead people, but places where dead matter accumulates, where there is no day and night, always in a half-dark and half-light light, the ground is bronze, which is made of dead metal, the sky is gray, it is made of dead air, the flames are cold and blue, they are all dead fire elements, and the water cannot float anything, because the water is also dead. ”

"The bones of all living beings from ancient times to the present day are all dead, and the fifth element, 'life', is enriched in their bones, capable of refining the legendary elixir of immortality, the philosopher's stone, or we can call it the 'Philosopher's Stone'. Imagine what a huge treasure trove for alchemists, if they could get there and pick up a stone at hand, it would be the best raw material. The dust there is worth a lot in this world. ”

"What does this have to do with the dragons, or with us?" Ange asked

"It probably doesn't matter, because this dead man's country probably doesn't exist at all." "You think what a hard life those alchemists lived, burning strange things in the fire all day, hoping to make something worthy, disgraced. At that time, there were no public lectures, and I only relied on a little experience from the parchment. If you don't make up a paradise to satisfy yourself, this career may not be able to last. ”

"There were too many legends in the Middle Ages, and the navigators could not sail to China at that time, so they said that China was full of gold, but the sea route was not passable, because the bottom of the sea was full of dragons sleeping in the magma, and the ships sailed there, and the dragons would wake up and bite the bottom of the ship, and people would fall into the boiling waters of the magma." He paused, "However, this does fit a Norse mythology, where the black dragon stands guard by the branch of the 'World Tree' leading to the 'Land of the Dead', and it seems that he is the gatekeeper of the Land of the Dead." ”

"And at the twilight of the gods, the sea was broken, and a great ship made of the fingernails of the dead rose from the sea, it came from the land of the dead, and the ship was full of the spirits of the dead. They are the land of the dead, sending armies that challenge the living. ”

"Undead······ Those dark shadows that Ye Yu saw? ”

The Night's Watch nodded, "After all these years, have you ever felt that despite all our efforts to study the dragons, they are still mysterious. They had built a vast civilization in the world, using humans as their servants, building huge palaces and vast temples, and it stands to reason that they had left behind countless ruins, and human destruction alone was not enough to wipe the remains of dragons off the face of the earth. ”

"But in fact, there is still very little evidence that the dragons ever existed, and ordinary humans knew nothing about it, and we have never unearthed those miraculous things, such as the towering bronze palace of the King of Bronze and Fire in Northern Europe, such as the Optimus Bronze Pillar that stands on the island of Greenland today, on which the Black King nailed the White King, such as the transoceanic Shinto that connected the European continent and the Atlantic islands under the order of the Black King, which according to the literature is about 400 meters wide, It is enough to keep a Macedonian phalanx of 10,000 people in formation, flat as water, straight without a trace of bending. ”

"If there were such roads, I would definitely drive to the top speed." Raise your head

"But as soon as the Black King dies, these things disappear, like Atlantis sinking into the Atlantic. In fact, the legend of Atlantis is the historical metamorphosis of the demise of the dragons, and overnight, these things that were more majestic than today's Empire State Building, even the entire island of Manhattan, and even the whole of the United States, completely disappeared, never to be seen again, never to be found again. Is this possible? ”

"You have to know that even if these things sink into the Atlantic Ocean and it takes three days for the tsunami to reach the Indian Ocean and flood all of India in one fell swoop, it will disappear very calmly." The night watchman asked, "Why?" ”

"Something to do with the Nibelungen, the land of the dead?"

"This is one of the speculations, the kingdom of the dragons is not built in a normal dimension at all, but in the 'land of the dead' that they rule. It's a mythical dimension, a world of another concept, coexisting with the world we have now, with only a few interfaces to reach. ”

Ange slowly tilted his head and spat out the alcohol-filled gas of the first floor against the pitch-black roof, feeling the mysterious aura of the legend that magically steamed up

"It's too hard to explain from a scientific point of view. A new dimension, a new space, to open the passage into there requires an incredible amount of energy, probably enough to accelerate the earth to almost the speed of light, like a bullet through a black hole or something, if he has this terrible power, it is impossible for the Black King to be killed by humans, he can suck and breathe once is enough to burn the world hundreds of times. ”

"You're talking about energy, black holes, and four-dimensional space," the Night's Watch said slowly, raising an eyebrow and staring into his eyes, "it's still a matter of science, and you're still seeing the world through human eyes." ”

"The world through the eyes of the dragons······ It's completely different from us, isn't it? ”

"Yes, the dragons' natural ability is to change the rules. The current route you are taking is to explain the spirit of speech in a scientific way, and the effect of the 'sickle' is actually by changing the density of the air, so that the air around the person who releases it forms a natural amplifying cavity, and at the same time enhances the sense of hearing, so that it is extremely sensitive to subtle sounds. ”

"But the dragons don't think so at all, the dragons think that the spirit of words has changed the rules of the world in the realm, and the release of the scythe is to awaken the sleeping spirits in the air, these spirits turn into wind demons, and the voice is like a messenger to your ears, and once they evolve into 'vampire scythes', they will change from messengers to attackers who are not afraid of death, and turn into the blades of the wind and spread outward." The Night's Watch said, "The logic of alchemy says that everything is smooth and easy to explain. And the science you study is a kind of thing, and every time you have to come up with a different scientific concept, explain the stumbling and stumbling, what cavities, microstructures, turbulence, eye effects. ”

"Your set of alchemical logic is the logic of the magic stick, okay?" As a Cambridge graduate, Ange couldn't accept the other party's denigration of science, and his voice was raised, "And in fact, what you gods say is vivid, not logical at all!" ”

"What about your own 'time zero'? Can you explain time zero scientifically? Are you slowing down or speeding up time? Can you tell me how much energy it takes to shorten or lengthen the timeline? The night watchman shrugged, "The more advanced the speech, the more difficult it is to explain scientifically, which is originally the domain of the occult. ”

"Evidence of the existence of the Nibelungen, the land of the dead, can be found in many myths, and the Tibetans believe that people have forty-nine days after death to wander in a mysterious realm, when the human soul is called 'bardo', which is pronounced as 'Antrabhara', which is something in the occult realm, and no one knows where these 'bardo' have gone, maybe it is a real space, maybe it exists in an illusory world of consciousness."

"Well, Divine Stick," Ange said, "So, how do you open the 'Nibelungen, the Land of the Dead'?" ”

"Dead ······"

"Nonsense! I mean live to ······." Ange felt a little powerless

"I said that all generations of alchemists wanted to live ······ Now they are all gone, because they are all dead. The night watchman pouted

"You are the person with the greatest achievements in alchemy in the entire academy, if you also have no clue about opening the passage, then why did the passage suddenly open to Ye Yu and Chu Zihang?"

"First of all, your evidence now doesn't prove that Chu Zihang really went to the Land of the Dead, it's just a hypothesis; Secondly, if you want to enter the door, the most important thing is naturally to get permission from the gatekeeper. ”

"The gatekeeper is ······" Ange was silent for a long time, "Black King Nidhogg?? ”

"But inside he didn't see Nidhogg, he saw Odin."

"The mythical black dragon and his adversary······ Could it be the same being? ”

"God knows who knows, I've told you everything I know," the Night's Watch paused, "all right······ And one last one······ Permission to cross borders is not a one-time deal. ”

"What do you mean?" Ange was stunned

"Judging from the oldest texts, entering the territory of the dragon clan requires permission. Humans are allowed to enter, perhaps as a pilgrimage, or as servants to listen and send after, and they are closely watched, but they can see and hear as much as they can. They can't take anything there, even if everything there is more precious than gold. ”

"But humans are a very thief race, and they still have people who have succeeded in stealing dragons, because after many generations of attempts, they have found that people who are allowed once will have some kind of mark on their bodies, this kind of thing is called "branding", and they can find that way again after walking that road once, so these people quietly sneak in themselves, avoiding the dragon's surveillance, which is the legendary treasure thief who entered the dragon's den. The night watchman suddenly lowered his voice, "The scar is like ······ A passport that allows multiple entries! ”

Ye Yu and Chu Zihang are the only two people we know who have been there," Ange shuddered slightly, "Those who have been there once will be able to find their way!" “

"Like a medium, like a crystal ball, like the division between day and night, they can communicate different worlds," whispered the night watchman, "if he is the chosen one, he is chosen by the dragon." ”

The rain was heavy, and a dense raindrop hit the glass, and Ange turned his head to look out the window at the hazy campus in the rain

The Night's Watch looked at his long-time companion, who sat on the couch in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, his waist straight, his silhouette thin and stiff, clearly dressed only in a suit, but as majestic as a samurai in iron armor. Every time he burst out with such an aura, it was due to some kind of strong ······ Desire to conquer

"It's been many years, I've never thought I'm like this, and I feel like I'm so close to the finish line." After a long silence, Ange turned back and whispered

"What's your end?"

"I'm going to find the Forbidden City of the Dragon Kings, tie them up inside, stuff a nuclear bomb into those bronzes, rocks, underwater or floating in the sky, and then detonate them at the same time, and I sit on the bronze pillar that crucified the White King and watch this group of reptiles fall in the world, and the fire rains down from the sky." Ange had a serious expression, "What do you think of my ultimate ideal in life?" ”

"Very good," the Night's Watch nodded, "I'm sure you've done it, you've always held grudges." ”

PS: Recall the setting of the Nibelungen, this golden finger that will become the protagonist in the later stage, 233333

PS: There may be two more today, which can be regarded as making up for the lack of changes in the past two days, 233333